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Professional candy-making " "Can you beat it!" said Owen. "It's extraordinary!" Mrs. Salisbury conceded. Her husband asked the all-important question: "What do you have to pay for one of these paragons?" "It's all here," Mrs. Salisbury said. But she was distracted in her search of a scale of prices by the headlines of the various pages. "'Rules Governing Employers," she read, with amusement.
For in the instructive anecdotes every other form of merit is depicted as second to that of being a dutiful son. To the practice of that supreme virtue all other considerations are sacrificed. The student's aim is thus kept single. At every turn of the leaves, paragons of filial piety shame the youthful reader to the pitch of emulation by the epitaphic records of their deeds.
"You can find her story by the hundred in your streets, but nothing hinders these paragons of virtue" he nodded at the stream of carriages "from turning up their eyes when they see ladies of her sort pass. She came to London just three years ago. After a year one of her little boys took fever the shop was avoided her husband caught it, and died.
We are all paragons of wisdom in the management of other people's children. It is in dealing with our own our limitations are so obvious. Fond as she had become of Angela's sweet young mother, it must be owned that whom Janet loved in this way she often chastened. Neighbors swore it was not grief, nor illness, half so much as sister-in-law, that wore the gentle spirit to the snapping-point.
But there are limits set in the everlasting mercy to him who has been once deceived and a second time deceives himself. They have seen their paragons of science and organisation playing their part on land and sea; showing their love of learning at Louvain and their love of humanity at Lille. For a time at least they have believed the testimony of their senses.
Like those paragons of perfection, advertising footmen out of place, he was always ‘willing to make himself generally useful.’ If any old lady, whose son was in India, gave a ball, Mr. Percy Noakes was master of the ceremonies; if any young lady made a stolen match, Mr. Percy Noakes gave her away; if a juvenile wife presented her husband with a blooming cherub, Mr.
Somehow, you don't look like Paragons either, you especially," nodding to Clover. "Your eyes are like violets; but so are Sylvia's that's my sister, and she's the greatest witch in Massachusetts. Eyes are dreadfully deceitful things. As for you," to Katy, "you're so tall that I can't take you in all at once; but the piece I see doesn't look dreadful a bit."
You are paragons of all that's good, and your feelings are highly creditable to yourselves and to humanity.
Dutton and Gerard Godfrey were paragons of lay helpers, and district visitors never were troublesome. Mrs. Edwards listened with open ears, and together they bewailed the impracticability of moving the Canon to raising Bridgefield to anything approaching to such a standard; while Nuttie absolutely cultivated her home sickness.
I was somewhat amused by the quaintness of some of the advertisements of this sheet for the people, that style of literature being new to me; and found myself smiling over the perfections set forth as necessary, by the paragons of the earth, in both wife and servant, when I came to a dead stand.
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